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Scott has a popular YouTube channel with over 1.5 million subscribers and more than 286 million video views on his YouTube channel as of January 2019[update].[7] Regular series on the channel include Things You Might Not Know, Amazing Places, The Basics, and Built for Science, as well as a series warning of the future of technology, named simply ⏩ (the fast forward symbol). His channel also hosts the comedy panel show Citation Needed, featuring the other members of his radio comedy troupe "The Technical Difficulties", and which he presented. Scott additionally produces explanations of computer security issues on Brady Haran's YouTube channel Computerphile[8], among other projects such as linguistics.[7] He is known for his red t-shirts, worn out of a need for continuity during filming.[9]

At the end of 2015, Scott launched a collaborative YouTube channel with his colleague and friend Matt Gray called Matt and Tom,[10] known for its series The Park Bench wherein the pair would regularly sit on a park bench and discuss videos on Scott's other channel, occasions from their past, travels and stories related to their jobs. From its inception until March 2018 the series was produced weekly, but in their 24 March 2018 episode[11] they announced that the series would no longer be produced on a regular schedule due to time constraints. They did note that they would produce irregular episodes from time-to-time, whenever they had interesting things to talk about. On 30 October 2018, they ended the series with the episode "The Park Bench: 2015-2018", however, they stated that the channel would continue to be used for other projects.[12]

He has produced a number of quiz and panel shows for his YouTube channel, including Citation Needed (2014-2018), Game On (2016), Questionable (2016), Lateral (2018), and Game Garage (2019).[13]

Scott began in 2004 by producing a website parodying the British government's emergency response procedures, including a section explaining what to do in case of a zombie apocalypse. This resulted in the Cabinet Office responding by demanding the site be taken down. In response, Scott said he sent a "polite response declining to take down the site" with the website still live today.[14][15][16][17] Four years later, his University Radio York radio show, "The Technical Difficulties", won the Kevin Greening Award[18] at the Student Radio Awards. More recently, The Technical Difficulties has been relaunched as a podcast,[19] and as a series on Scott's YouTube channel. He later captained the Hitchhikers in series 3 of BBC Four's Only Connect in 2010 but was knocked out by the Strategists in the semi-finals.[20] In 2012, Scott took part in the Team in the Sky 1 series Gadget Geeks where he was responsible for the Software solutions.[4] Widespread coverage was received by Scott in 2013 for "Actual Facebook Graph Searches", a Tumblr site which exposes potentially embarrassing or dangerous collation of public Facebook data using Facebook's Graph Search such as showing men in Tehran who have said that they are "interested in men" or "Single women who live nearby and are interested in men and like getting drunk".[21][22] One year later, Scott worked part-time for UsVsTh3m for over a year.[23][24]

Scott, along with Matt Gray, co-founded Emojli in 2014. It was a parody emoji-only social network based on social networking application Yo. It was described by Salon as "an inside joke turned into reality".[25][26]

It closed in July 2015 after it became too expensive to maintain, though it is sometimes mentioned in Scott's videos and speeches.[27]

Other web-related humour Scott has created includes "Evil", a web app that revealed the phone numbers of Facebook users,[28][29] "Tweleted"—which allowed you to see posts deleted from Twitter,[30] and "What's Osama bin Watchin?", which mashes together an image of Osama bin Laden with Internet meme videos from YouTube.[31] In 2012, Scott released "Klouchebag", a satire of the social media rankings site Klout.[32][33]

As part of his bid, he promised to scrap taxes on rum, have schools offer courses in "swordsmanship and gunnery", and put a 50% tax on downloads of Cheryl ColeMP3s, mainly due to his dislike of the singer. He described his chances of winning in the safe Conservative seat of Westminster as "[s]omewhere 'twixt a snowball's chance in hell an' zero."[40] He received 84 votes, 0.2% of the total including the vote of lead guitarist of Oasis, Noel Gallagher.[41][42]